TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Preamble
2. How to have a good learning experience
1. Why are you learning a language?
2. Preparing to learn
3. Goals⋅Habits⋅Mindset
4. Recap
3. How to practice a language
   1. Fast and Slow
   2. Comprehensible Input ⋅ Deliberate Practice
   3. Language skills
   4. Reading⋅Listening⋅Writing⋅ Speaking ⋅ The L-R Method
   5. Recap
4. How to study a language
   1. Learning to learn
   2. Vocabulary
   3. Deep Encoding 
   4. Pronunciation
   5. IPA⋅ Advanced techniques
   6. Grammar
   7. Recap
5. How to make it stick
   1. Spaced Repetition
   2. Between Scylla and Charybdis 
   3. Higher-order thinking
   4. Preserving what you learn
   5. A quick experiment 
   6. Recap

6. Epilogue

   1. What we talk about when we talk about learning like kids

   2. How to be good at languages

7. Appendices

   1. Resources

   2. The tyranny of choice⋅ To buy or not to buy⋅ Learning in the age of AI

   3. Languages around the world

   4. Selected Bibliography

   5. References